Handi-Rifle trigger adjust?

[roysclockgun]

My H&R Handi-Rifle in .243Win has a very heavy trigger. I looked up how to adjust the trigger, but doing it myself appears very dicey.
Has anyone sent a rifle back to H&R for trigger lightening? Cost? Time?
I saw somewhere that H&R offers this service.
TIA,
Steven

 

[Richracer1]

I had my Gunsmith lighten mine, but when I sent it back to NEF for another barrel, they undid what I had done and now it's heavy again. Apparently it's a PITA to dissassemble/reassamble the trigger as it comes out in pieces. My Smith told me he would never do another NEF Handi-Rifle again.

I'd be surprised to hear that a manufacturer would lighten up a trigger due to the liability aspect. Some dip-s**t would get their trigger lightened and then sue them for some idiotic thing the shooter did.

 

[roysclockgun]

Yeah, the diagrams and tools needed on the site that explains how to take out the trigger, make it look like a bear to get done. They also mention "making" a couple tools that hold everything in place, as it is being re-installed.
This rifle is my wife's first deer rifle and I would have been okay, as she had said nothing about the 5 lb. trigger on the Handi-Rifle until I let her shoot my Tikka. She immediately recognized what a really fine trigger can do for your groups. That said, most shots that I have gotten on pigs and deer have been well within 100 yards and she is placing all her groups inside 3 inches at 100 yards. Many times I observe men at the range doing their once a year "sight-in". Too many of those gents are able to put three rounds inside 10 inches at a hundred yards, and they are good to go! So, wife's 3 inch groups will likely serve to get her the game without lightening the trigger.
Steven

 

[maanbr1]

Like richracer, I had a local gunsmith do my NEF .223 a few years back. He did a great job, but when I sent the gun back to get a .500SW barrel added they adjusted it back to factory spec and dumped all the lead shot out of the stock I had in there :x